Fire has gutted a petrol tanker in a filling station in Abuja. But no lives were lost in the Thursday evening inferno.
Police authorities in the FCT said it took the efforts of emergency workers to quell the fire.
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“In response to the fire outbreak at Mainland oil and gas filling station in Kubwa, Abuja, earlier today, July 11, 2024, at about 05:30 p.m., the Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Benneth C. Igweh, psc, mni, swiftly mobilised police patrol teams from Kubwa division and personnel of PMF 50 alongside operatives of the Federal Fire Service to the scene to possibly rescue victims, extinguish the fire, and protect other assets of the filling station from being engulfed,” the spokesperson of the FCT Police Command Josephine Adeh said in a late Thursday statement.
“While no fatalities were recorded, preliminary investigation revealed that a tanker discharging fuel actually caught fire, but with the combined effort of the police operatives, fire service personnel, and members of the public, the fire was extinguished even though the tanker got burned completely.”
According to her, the cause of the fire is yet to be known as of now but the situation is under control as the fire has been extinguished. More details about the incident are expected from the police authorities, she said.
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